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The following has long struck me as obvious, but it occurred to me yesterday that it might not be. So I share it herein.

We have now reached a very interesting point. At least at the narrative level we have reached the point that “defunding the police” is a…

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This post will be an extension and update to the model first shared in Situational Assessment: 2017. Some familiarity with the concepts…

Nassim Taleb famously brought the notion of anti-fragile into our consciousness in his book by that name.

It seems that an old conversation has begun again. After several decades of relative silence and in the context of the rising popularity of…

It appears that at long last the popular sentiment seems to be boiling with enough intensity to (maybe) do something about the problem of…

It might very well be the case that 2018 will be known as the “Year of Jordan Peterson”.

I would like to explore what I think is a useful distinction between “thinking” and a quite different phenomenon that might be best…

This series began in 2015 with an effort to do a broad assessment of the various risks present in the total global environment. Last year…

I’d like to propose that we are already fighting World War III. We are not merely getting perilously close or or waiting for the other shoe…

In my Situational Assessment: 2017, I quoted a post from Reddit:

In 2015, I took a swing at assessing the shape and state of our global challenges. Looking back, that essay is still well worth a read, but…

There have been a lot of conversations about Bitcoin over the years. Is it a currency or an equity or a commodity? Is it a store of value…

I was recently challenged by a friend around my model of abundance and put together this set of axioms that drive my thinking. I have no…

Human organizational models have long been limited to a small set of effective approaches. For small organizations with fewer than thirty…

What is a hacker?

A few weeks ago, I found myself in a conversation with my friends Jim Rutt and Yasuhiko Kimura on the topic of courage. (Specifically, Jim…

This essay discusses my current sense of our challenges. Importantly, this should not be read as gloomy, pessmistic or hopeless. I’m…

It is useful to consider the economy as a “fitness landscape”. It is a far from neutral environment on which there are some highly…

I find that it is often crucial to communicate my foundational assumptions when attempting to dialogue. Disagreement at the foundational…